The Lost World Of Friese-Greene Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

More entertaining that the Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon

This is a very entertaining 3 episode series about narrator Dan Cruickshank following Claude Friese-Greene's journey in the early 20s from Lands End to John O'Groats, in an attempt to see how the world Friese-Greene filmed has changed - and in some cases, has not changed. Friese-Greene's films are in themselves fascinating, since they were using a very innovative colour process. This is all explained in the series (three times, in fact, in case viewers of the original TV series had missed an earlier episode). It's a very interesting film, and Dan Cruickshank appears to be a really lovely person. The only let-down is the reactions of some of the people he is showing his portable DVD player to... one would have thought that, when shown images of their grandfather, in colour, for the first time, they would have been a little more ecstatic; evidently, so does Cruickshank, who always asks 'So how does it feel seeing your grandfather in colour after all these years?'. The reaction seems rather deadpan at times, which makes me think that some of the people he is showing the footage too have already had a sneak preview before Cruickshank's own cameras capture their reaction. Shame there's not more of London, but you can find more footage on the History part of the Beeb's website.

No.3 was even more fascinating.

As for Nos. 1 & 2 but, Scotland was even more fascinating for us because we saw Dumfries and our original 'Home Town' as they were in 1924